91st Academy Awards predictions

This morning, the Academy announced the official nominations for the 91st Academy Awards. Here are my official predictions for the winners of the upcoming awards show. Disclaimer: These are semi-opinion based but are mostly my realistic predictions.

Supporting Actress:

• Amy Adams (Vice)

• Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)

• Marina de Tavira (Roma)

• Emma Stone (The Favourite)

• Rachel Weisz (The Favourite) WINNER

Supporting Actor:

• Mahershala Ali (Green Book) WINNER

• Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)

• Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born)

• Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)

• Sam Rockwell (Vice)

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• A Star Is Born (Eric Roth, Will Fetters, Bradley Cooper)

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

• BlacKkKlansman (Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee)

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) WINNER

• Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty)

Best Original Screenplay:

• The Favourite (Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara)

• First Reformed (Paul Schrader) WINNER

• Green Book (Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly)

• Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)

• Vice (Adam McKay)

Best Live Action Short Film:

• Detainment (Vincent Lambe & Darren Maho)

• Fauve (Jeremy Comte & Maria Garcia Turgeon) WINNER

• Marguerite (Marianne Farley & Marie-Helene Panisset)

• Mother (Rodrigo Sorogoyen & María del Puy Alvarado)

• Skin (Guy Nattiv & Jaime Ray Newman)

Best Short Documentary:

• Black Sheep (Ed Perkins & Jonathan Chinn)

• End Game (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman) WINNER

• Lifeboat (Skye Fitzgerald & Bryn Mooser)

• A Night at the Garden (Marshall Curry)

• Period. End of Sentence. (Rayka Zehtabchi & Melissa Berton)

Best Animated Short:

• Animal Behaviour (Alison Snowden & David Fine)

• Bao (Domee Shi & Becky Neiman-Cobb) WINNER

• Late Afternoon (Louise Bagnall & Nuria González Blanco)

• One Small Step (Andrew Chesworth & Bobby Pontillas)

• Weekends (Trevor Jimenez)

Best Production Design:

• Black Panther (Hannah Beachler & Jay Hart)

• The Favourite (Fiona Crombie & Alice Felton)

• First Man (Nathan Crowley & Kathy Lucas) WINNER

• Mary Poppins Returns (John Myhre & Gordon Sim)

• Roma (Eugenio Caballero & Barbara Enriquez)

Best Documentary Feature:

• Free Solo (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, Shannon Dill) WINNER

• Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim)

• Minding the Gap (Bing Liu and Diane Quon)

• Of Fathers and Sons (Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert)

• RBG (Betsy West and Julie Cohen)

Best Original Song:

• "All the Stars" (Black Panther)

• "I'll Fight" (RBG)

• "Shallow" (A Star Is Born) WINNER

• "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling:

• Border (Goran Lundstrom and Pamela Goldammer)

• Mary Queen of Scots (Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks)

• Vice (Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney) WINNER

Best Costume Design:

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Mary Zophres)

• Black Panther (Ruth E. Carter)

• The Favourite (Sandy Powell) WINNER

• Mary Poppins Returns (Sandy Powell)

• Mary Queen of Scots (Alexandra Bryne)

Best Original Score:

• Black Panther (Ludwig Goransson)

• BlacKkKlansman (Terence Blanchard)

• If Beale Street Could Talk (NICHOLAS BRITELL) WINNER

• Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat)

• Mary Poppins Returns (Marc Shaiman)

Best Animated Feature:

• Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle)

• Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson)

• Mirai (Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito)

• Ralph Breaks the Internet (Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer)

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller) WINNER

Best Foreign-Language Film:

• Capernaum (Lebanon)

• Cold War (Poland)

• Never Look Away (Germany)

• Roma (Mexico) WINNER

• Shoplifters (Japan)

Best Sound Mixing

• Black Panther (Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin)

• Bohemian Rhapsody (Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali)

• First Man (Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis)

• Roma (Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and Jose Antonio Garcia) WINNER

• A Star Is Born (Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow)

Best Sound Editing:

• Black Panther (Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker)

• Bohemian Rhapsody (John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone)

• First Man (Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan) WINNER

• A Quiet Place (Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl)

• Roma (Sergio Diaz and Skip Lievsay)

Best Visual Effects:

• Avengers: Infinity War (Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick)

• Christopher Robin (Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould)

• First Man (Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm)

• Ready Player One (Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk)

• Solo: A Star Wars Story (Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy) WINNER

Best Film Editing:

• BlacKkKlansman (Barry Alexander Brown)

• Bohemian Rhapsody (John Ottman)

• The Favourite (Yorgos Mavropsaridis) WINNER

• Green Book (Patrick J. Don Vito)

• Vice (Hank Corwin)

Best Cinematography:

• The Favourite (Robbie Ryan)

• Never Look Away (Caleb Deschanel)

• Roma (Alfonso Cuarón) WINNER

• A Star Is Born (Matty Libatique)

• Cold War (Lukasz Zal)

Best Actor:

• Christian Bale (Vice)

• Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born) WINNER

• Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate)

• Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)

• Viggo Morstensen (Green Book)

Best Actress:

• Yalitza Aparicio (Roma)

• Glenn Close (The Wife)

• Olivia Colman (The Favourite) WINNER

• Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)

• Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)

Best Director:

• Alfonso Cuarón (Roma) WINNER

• Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)

• Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)

• Adam McKay (Vice)

• Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)

Best Motion Picture of the Year:

• Black Panther (Kevin Feige, Producer)

• BlacKkKlansman (Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers)

• Bohemian Rhapsody (Graham King, Producer)

• The Favourite (Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers) RUNNER-UP

• Green Book (Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers)

• Roma (Gabriela Rodriguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers) WINNER

• A Star Is Born (Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers)

• Vice (Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers)